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Standard Six: External Development Leadership
A school executive will design structures and processes that result in community engagement, support, and ownership. Acknowledging that schools no longer reflect but, in fact, build community, the leader proactively creates with staff, opportunities for parents/guardians, community, and business representatives to participate as “stockholders” in the school such that continued investment of resources and good will are not left to chance.


Related Coursework and Training
  • Community Internship at the Down East Partnership for Children in Rocky Mount, NC
  • Developmental Projects: Early Elementary, Middle School and High School
  • Distinguished Leadership in Practice Assignment: "Creating a Strong Internal and External Stakeholder Focus"
  • Facilitative Leadership
  • IEL Federal Policy Institute
  • School Law & Finance course

Related Readings
  • The Principal's Legal Handbook, Lane
  • The Law and Special Education, Yell
  • Place and Community Based Education in Schools, Smith
  • Community: The Structure of Belonging, Block

Standard 6a: Parent and Community Involvement and Outreach

Proficient: Works with others to engage parents/guardians and all community stakeholders in a shared responsibility for student and school success reflecting the community's vision of the school.

Activities:

  • Created newsletters for events that took place at the school.
  • Worked with the Principal to develop different methods of parent outreach & incorporated students in that outreach.
  • Served on a panel of judges for students' Civil Rights speeches.

Artifacts




Standard 6b: Federal, State and District Mandates

Proficient: Works with others to ensure compliance with federal, state, and district mandates; continually assesses the progress of district initiatives and reports results to district-level decision-makers; works with others to implement district initiatives directed at improving student achievement.

Activities:

  • Worked with the School Improvement Team to implement the School Improvement Plan

Artifacts:

School Improvement Plan

School Improvement